Lobbying World

The Center for Clean Air Policy has named William Tyndall as its new CEO, effective Feb. 16. He succeeds the group›s president and founder, Ned Helme, who is stepping down after 30 years. Tyndall has been on the organization›s board, in addition to leading clean energy initiatives at Duke Energy. Before that, he worked on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Sam Scales, who most recently worked as the director of coalitions and member services at the House Natural Resources Committee, has left for the lobby shop at Ford Motor Company. Before going to Capitol Hill in December 2014, he worked as an associate managing director at law firm Dentons.

{mosads}The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) lost two of its attorneys, Thomas Kearney and Molly Calkins, to the law firm Akerman. They will both serve as partners within the consumer financial services practice group. Kearney formerly worked within the CFPB’s Office of Regulations, where he focused on several rules involving the mortgage finance industry. Calkins, a founding member of the bureau, comes from its Division of Supervision, Enforcement and Fair Lending, where she led investigations involving credit cards, fair lending, auto finance, student loans and debt collection, among other things.

Horizon Government Affairs hired Katie Allen as a director of government affairs within its Washington office. She most recently worked as a senior legislative assistant to Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.), a member of the House Ways and Means health subcommittee. Allen also held a similar position for Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) and has experience as an insurance regulator at the state and federal level.

Darci Eswein has been named a managing director in the healthcare practice at McAllister & Quinn. Eswein comes from the Health Resources and Services Administration at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Nicole Sprinzen is joining the firm Cozen O’Connor as a partner in its criminal defense and internal investigations practice. Prior to that, she worked at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and as a prosecutor with the Justice Department’s Criminal Division’s Fraud Section.

Alston & Bird hired Theodore “Ted” Schroeder as a counsel in the firm’s legislative and public policy group in its Washington office. He previously served as chief counsel to Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee.